The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. –Eleanor Roosevelt

There are no secrets to success: Don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence. –Colin Powell

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed. –Booker T. Washington

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed. And the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep trying! –Tom Hopkins

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less. –Kurt Hahn

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

“Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.”- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

“His ignorance is encyclopedic”- Abba Eban (1915-2002)

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)